My wife and I live in Northeast Thailand. We have been working as best we can to create a "forest garden" in a rural area where the general flow of things for a long time has been away from agrarian subsistence toward commercial agriculture and currently toward industrial development. Of course, this trend destroys biodiversity, step by step. Going against the flow may be ultimately futile but it feels right and the resulting experience of natural beauty is inspiring! What are the retirement years for if not for obstinately doing what you love to do?